In terms of someone gaming the system, this was sort of said in a previous comment, but having a value associated with a skill sets a level of expectation. If

In terms of someone gaming the system, this was sort of said in a previous comment, but having a value associated with a skill sets a level of expectation. If you say you're at 777 for a skill, then it would be valid for an interviewer to ask you a very tough question on it. It doesn't resolve the fact that you shouldn't have gotten to the interview stage, but you can be thrown out earlier in the process, like during a phone screen instead of an in-person interview.